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To many thousands of Mexicans, Mexican-Americans and Hispanics in general, actor Sean Penn's comments about Mexican film director Alejandro González Iñárritu were offensive. "Who gave this son of a bitch his green card?" Penn asked, before handing González Iñárritu his third Oscar of the night, this one for the best picture of the year — "Birdman." Thousands who took to Twitter and Facebook said it was the equivalent of a white man using the "N-word." But to González Iñárritu, it was a joke between friends. "I found it hilarious," González Iñárritu...

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